Hair Contouring Is the Next Big Beauty Trend

When you think of the contouring craze, you usually think about makeup. The highlight and contouring trend flatters your face, creating shadows in all the right places. Now, the same can be done for your hair! Hair contouring can enhance your features, by making your big eyes pop or highlighting your amazing cheekbones. It all depends on your face shape.

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Girls like Lucy Hale can make their faces look longer and less baby-faced by putting highlights in very specific places, showing off their amazing eyes.

It's basically just like balayage, but the highlights are less random. "Hair contouring uses freehand coloring and highlighting to enhance face shapes," colorist Nick Penna told Allure. "Highlighting and shading certain parts of the hair can create the illusion of a different face shape, depending on what you want to accentuate. Just like the makeup technique, light shades are for highlighting and darker shades are for creating a shadow effect."

Nick looks to Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker for amazing hair and perfect contouring.

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"The blonde pieces right next to her forehead travel down to her chin area, drawing the eye to the sides, which emphasizes the width," he said. "The tops and underneath sections of hair are dark, which serve as the shadow pieces that try to minimize the length of her face."

So now we have face contouring, body contouring, and hair contouring. What could possibly be next?